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There is a reason why the Johnson who has risen so close to the top of British politics is Boris, not his father. As Johnson Sr fulminates over the treatment of his son by the BBC’s Eddie Mair, the Mayor of London has quite sensibly accepted his drubbing in an interview as nothing less than he should have expected from a man doing his job.

There is also a reason that it was Mr Johnson who was honoured with an admiring hour-long documentary in the middle of a politically and meteorologically miserable winter, not David Cameron. It is that Mr